Posted by: makeshiftwings on: May 18, 2010
My laptop is still not back. I’m pretty unhappy with this whole process. Toshiba text me on Friday after having it for 16 days, saying it was fixed and would be delivered back to me by personal courier. I know today is only Tuesday, but when something is being couriered back to you, you expect [...]
Posted by: makeshiftwings on: May 2, 2010
My laptop broke a couple of weeks ago (graphic card problems I think) and it’s gone to Toshiba to be repaired as it’s still (thankfully!) under warranty. So I’m using my 3+yr old Toshiba that I thought died when I spilled a massive glass of coke over the keyboard. It’s holding up surprisingly well, given [...]
Posted by: makeshiftwings on: April 21, 2010
Book 18 was Bombproof by Michael Robotham. We got this book free as some part of an Angus and Robertson promotion for 50 Books You Must Read Before You Die or something. It’s been sitting on the bookshelf for years but I picked it up the other day determined to finally get it out of [...]
Posted by: makeshiftwings on: April 17, 2010
Book #17 was The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. I had read a few reviews of this book and seen it around once or twice and picked it up the last time I was in Borders off the 3 for 2 table. I have to admit, it took me a LONG time to get into [...]
Posted by: makeshiftwings on: April 12, 2010
Book #16 was Absurdistan, by Eric Campbell. Campbell is an ABC foreign correspondent, primarily covering areas in a state of conflict. He was first stationed in Moscow, Russia and traveled from that base to places like Chechnya, Serbia, Afghanistan, Kalmykia, Armenia, Iraq, etc. He was later stationed in Beijing China and then in Afghanistan and [...]
Posted by: makeshiftwings on: March 16, 2010
Book #12 – Deadly Decisions, by Kathy Reichs. The 3rd in the Temperance Brennan novels. I didn’t like this one quite as much as the two others I’ve read, but I think that’s just because sometimes a series can ‘lose’ a bit when you read them all in a very short time frame. Normally you’re [...]
Posted by: makeshiftwings on: February 14, 2010
Books 10 & 11 were Deja Dead and Death du Jour both by Kathy Reichs. These were recommended to me by my American friend Sara and I ordered both off Booktopia. They’re books 1 & 2 in the on-going series about Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist who works between North Carolina and Montreal. The first [...]
Posted by: makeshiftwings on: February 11, 2010
Book #9 was Dark Lover by J.R Ward. I bought this off Booktopia in my last order as it was about 10 bucks and after the Southern Vampire Mysteries books and watching True Blood, I’m going through a bit of a vampire phase. This is the first in a series and I’m kind of torn [...]
Posted by: makeshiftwings on: February 1, 2010
Book #6 was Divine By Choice by P.C. Cast. I don’t even know what to say about this one. I think I should’ve just left it alone and not even bothered to read it after Divine By Mistake. But given that I’d paid for it, I had to have a go! And boy am I [...]
Posted by: makeshiftwings on: January 24, 2010
I finished book #4 on Friday and book #5 on Saturday. Book #4 was We Need To Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver. I read a small blurb on the book in the arts section of Saturday the 16th Jan’s paper so when we were in Borders the next day spending DH’s birthday/Xmas vouchers, I [...]
